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Computer Science 12


Week 1




Sunday, January 31, 2010



Course information

Required textbook:
  1. Jerry Waxman's course notes – available at the Copy Center under Gino’s Pizza, across Kissena Blvd from QC
Recommended textbooks:
  1. Exploring Microsoft Word by Grauer and Barber
  2. Exploring Microsoft Excel by Grauer and Barber
  3. Exploring Microsoft Access by Grauer and Barber
Relevant websites:


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General tutorials on Microsoft Word 2007

Below are some general tutorials on Microsoft Word, with an emphasis on matters relevant to writing academic papers:


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Excel 2007 tutorials

General tutorials on Excel 2007:

On the use of formulas:


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HTML tutorials

Here are links to some HTML tutorials:


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Assignment 1 (preparing to write a paper - first step due Thursday, February 11, 2010)

Obtain Jerry Waxman's CS 12 lecture notes, available at the Copy Center under Gino’s Pizza, across Kissena Blvd from QC. During the next week and a half, skim through the first third of the notes (up to but not including the lectures on Excel) and choose a topic for the paper that you'll be asked to write. Email me, by no later than Thursday, February 11, about the topic you have chosen.

Then reasearch the paper using Jerry Waxman's notes plus at least one other printed (offline) source plus at least two websites. Send me email containing a list of your sources by no later than Thursday, February 18.

The first draft of your paper must be finished by Sunday, February 28. Bring your first draft with you to class on that day (either on a flash drive or by emailing it to yourself) and again on Sunday, March 7. We will show you how to use various Microsoft Word 2007 features to make the paper look nicer.

Your first draft, which must be finished by February 28, should include at least one quote from each of your sources, and should have at least three sections with headings. We will then show you how to do citations, footnotes, bibliography, index, and table of contents, using Microsoft 2007 features which make these chores easy.

The paper itself should be six to eight pages long, double spaced, with a font size anywhere between 12 and 18. The final version of the paper must have a table of contents at the beginning, an index at the end, and properly formatted footnotes (which will place themselves automatically at the bottom of the relavant page), citations, a bibliography, and at least three other sections whose titles will appear in the automatically generated table of contents at the beginning. The paper must be an original paper, not plagiarized. (Warning: BlackBoard includes the ability to search automatically for possible plagiarism.)

The final version of the paper will then be due on Sunday, March 14.

Your first steps will be to choose the topic, gather sources, and tell me about the topic and the sources by emailing me at the following address (not any other email address of mine, please):

dnixon-cs12@nyclocal.net


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